Display box



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Unite States atent Q 3,044,605 DISPLAY BOX George H. Clement, Ambler, Pa., assignor, by mesne assignments, to Hickok Manufacturing (30., Inc, a corporation of New York Filed July 2, 1959, Ser. No. 824,601 6 Claims. (Cl. 206-4514) The present invention relates to a certain new and useful display box, for packaging belts and other articles, for counter display or for display in show-cases, and for serving also as the container in which the product may be merchandised or sold.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like. reference characters indicate like parts:

FIGURE 1 represents a perspective view of a display box embodying the present invention, showing a belt therein.

FIGURE 2 represents a top plan view of the same.

FIGURE 3 represents a front elevational view of the same.

FIGURE 4 represents a section on line 44 of FIG URE 2.

FIGURE 5 represents a section on line 5-5 of FIG- URE 4, on an enlarged scale.

FIGURE 6 represents a plan view of the blank of which the main body portion of the box or container is formed; shown on'a reduced scale.

FIGURE 7 represents a top plan view of the body of the container, partly assembled, but flattened out and with the ends folded out into an open position, and with the central portion of the length of the box broken away, so as to reduce the space required for this viewthis view being on the same scale as that of FIGURE 6.

FIGURE 8 represents a perspective view, partly in cross-section, of one end of the main body of the container, just prior to the folding of the end panels thereof into their final position.

FIGURE 9 represents a similar perspective view'with the end folded in and just before the upper securing flap of the end is folded into the position shown in FIG- URE 10. 1

FIGURE 10 represents a similar perspective view with the end completely formed.

FIGURE 11 represents a perspective view of a display box of a modified embodiment of my invention.

FIGURE 12 represents a top plan view of the same.

FIGURE 13 represents a front elevational view of the same.

FIGURE 14 represents a vertical cross-sectional view on line 1414 of FIGURE 12.

FIGURE 15 represents a plan view of the blank of which the main body portion of the box or container of the modified embodiment (shown in FIGURES 11, 12, 13 and 14) may be formed-shown on a reduced scale.

FIGURE 16 represents a top plan view of the blank shown in FIGURE 15, partly assembled, but flattened out (this view being on the same scale as that of FIGURE 15).

FIGURE 17 represents a bottom plan view of the blank shown in FIGURE 15, in the same state of assembly as shown in FIGURE 16, but from the opposite side of the flattened-out partial assembly.

FIGURE 18 represents a perspective view, partly in ice cross-section, of one end of the main body of the container, just prior to having its end-panels folded into their final position.

FIGURE 19 represents a transverse vertical cross-see tional view on line 19-19 of FIGURE 14.

According to the present invention the container is formed of two parts, namely, what may be called a main body formed of paper-board, designated generally by the numeral 11, and a closure member or portion designated generally by the numeral 12, formed of a transparent plastic of suflicient rigidity with form-retaining ability, to maintain its shape as a 2-sided sliding closure member with inturned flanges to guide it in an assembled and slidable relation to the main body 11.

The main body 11 includes a generally horizontal bottom 13, back 15 and front 14, and ends 16. The vertical dimension or height of the front 14 is substantially less than the corresponding vertical dimension or height of the back 15, as indicated particularly in FIGURES 1, 3, 5 and 8 to 10, and at a level corresponding to the top of the front 14, front and rear shelves or shoulders 18 and 19 are provided. Between the shelves 18 and 19 a well 20 is provided into which one or more loops of the belt 21 may be nested, in the manner indicated particularly in FIGURES 1 to 4, with the buckle end of the belt above the shelves 18 and 19 in the manner indicated in FIG- URES 1 to 4, and with the side portions or members of the buckle 22 and with the laterally extending folds of the leather loops 23 resting on the shelves 18 and 19.

The width of the well 20 in the direction of the arrow 24 (FIGURE 5) is preferably just slightly greater than the width of the belt, so as to permit the nesting of the belt therein, and so as to permit the buckle 22 and the belt-loops 23 to extend out over and onto the shelves 18 and 19.

The ends 16 are of the full height of the back 15, as indicated in FIGURES 1, 3, 4, 5 and 10. The plastic closure portion 12 is formed of any suitable more or less rigid or form-retaining transparent plastic of suitable thickness, which is preferably injection-molded, so as to maintain its shape and to maintain the annular relationship of its four component portions referred to hereinafter.

The closure member 12 includes a front panel 25, a top panel 26, at right angles to each other, and connected with each other at the bend 27, and a lower horizontal guide-retaining flange 28 at the lower edge of the vertical front panel 25 and extending rearwardly therefrom and connected therewith at the bend 29, and an upper vertical guide and retaining flange 30 extending downwardly from the rear edge of the upper horizontal panel 26 and connected therewith through the bend 31.

Each of the panels '25 and 26 and each of the flanges 28 and 30 are the full length of the box, as indicated in FIGURES l, 2, 3 and 5. The widths of the flanges 28 and 30 are just sufl'icient so as to resist the separation of the closure 12 from the main body 11 of the box, and to permit the closure to be slid longitudinally thereof-in which sliding motion the closure is guided by the upper edge of the back 15, the horizontal bottom 13 and the front 14 of the main body 11 and is also guided in part by the upper front corner of one of the two ends 16 or'17. However, the panels 25 and 26 of the closure 12 prefero 3 ably also have just suflicient flexibility to permit the two panels 25 and 26 to be spread apart to an angle sufficiently in excess of the 90 shown in FIGURES and 15 to bring the free longitudinal edge of one or the other of the flanges 28 and 30 clearof the corresponding longitudinal corner of the main body, so as also to permit the closure to be snapped on and off the main body.

The main body 11 may be formed of a single blank of paper-board of suitable thickness and stiffness. By reason of the manner of construction of the main body 11, the paper-board may be comparatively thin, because of the bracing of the various panels thereof, when assemled.

The blank shown in FIGURE6 includes the bottom 13, the front 14, the back 15, and the ends 16, adjacent to each other. a

Immediately adjacent the front 14 is the shelf 18. Adjacent the back 15 is the inner return-panel or rear-shelfanchor panel 32 which is folded downwardly from the upper edge of the back 15, along the fold-line 57. Similar well-panels 33 and 34 are provided adjacent the shelfpanels 18 and 19, respectively, which are turned folded downwardly from the shelf-panels 18 and 19, in the manncr indicated in FIGURES 5 and 8 to 10, along the foldlines 35 and 36 to form the side walls of the well 20. Pasting-flanges or well-anchor-flanges 37 and 38 adjoin the well-panels 33 and 34, respectively, and are folded inwardly, towards each other, along the fold-lines 39 and 40, and are pasted or adhesively secured to the inner surface of the bottom-panel 13, in the manner indicated in FIGURES 5 and 7 to 10, with their free edges preferably abutting each other as indicated in these figures, thereby to insure that the bottom of'the well will be of the same width as the top of the well or so as to fix the position of the bottom of the well by the abutting relationship of the free edges of the flanges 37 and 38.

Informing the blank 6 into the main body 11, the blank may befirst folded along the fold-line 57 between the back-panel 15 and the return-panel 32, and along the fold-line 41 between the front-panel 14 and the shelfpanel 18, in the manner indicated in FIGURE 7. When so folded, the panels 18, 33 and 37, on the one hand,

and the panels 32, 19, 34 and 38, on the other hand, may

all be flattened out on top of and against the front-panel 14, bottom panel 13 and back-panel 15, in the manner indicated in FIGURE 7. In this flattened condition, the pasting-flanges 37 and 38 may be pasted to the underlying bottom-panel 13; preferably with the free longitudinal edges of the pasting-flanges 37 and 38 abutting each other, as indicated in FIGURE 7, so that the position of the pasting-flanges 37 and 38 will be correct in relation to the bottom-panel 13, because the aggregate width of the shelf-panel 18, well-panel 33 and pasting-flange 37 is equal to the width ofthe frontepanel 14 and one-half the width of the bottom-panel 13, while the aggregate width of the return-panel 32, shelf-panel 19, well-panel 34 and pasting-flange 38 is equal to the width of the back-panel 15 and one-half the width of the bottom-panel 13.,

When the flanges 37 and 38 have been so pasted in place to the inner surface of the bottom-panel 13, the front-panel 14 and the back-panel 15 are raised up along the fold-lines 42 and 43, respectively, whereupon the shelf-panel 18 folds horizontally along the fold-line 41 (and 35) and the well-panel 33 folds along the fold-line 35 (and 39), while the shelf-panel 19 folds inwardly along the fold-line 44 (and 36) and the well-panel 33 folds downwardly along the fold-line 36 (and 40), in the manner indicated in FIGURES 5 and 7 to 10.

All'the fold-lines mentioned above, as well as the foldlines referred to hereinafter, are preferably pro-scored, so

4 that the folding of the paper-board along these fold-lines will take place automatically and accurately, as the panels are folded in respect to each other.

Each of the end-panels 1-6 is flanked by similar front and rear flanges 45 and 46, along the scored fold-lines 47 I 4 and 48. At each end of flange 49 is provided along corresponding fold-lines 50.

Along each end of the rear-panel 15 a similar flange 51 is provided, along corresponding fold-lines 52. The flanges 45 adjoin the flanges 49 along similar 45 foldlines 53, while the flanges 46 adjoin the flanges 51, along corresponding 45 fold-lines 54. A similar pasting-tab 55 is provided at the outer end of each of the end-panels 16, with a fold-line or scoring-line 56 therebetween.

After the front and back have been raised into the position shown in FIGURE 8, the flanges 45 and 46 are folded inwardly upon the end-panels 16 thereof. The panels 49 are folded inwardly against the free edges of teh shelf-panel 18 and the well-panel 33, while the panels 51 are folded inwardly against the free edges of the return-panel 32, the shelf-panel 19 and the well-panel 34, in the manner indicated in FIGURES 8 and 9 and also indicated in FIGURE 5. In this folding, the 45 fold-lines 53 and 54 will be disposed in the manner indicated in FIGURE 5. Thereafter, the pasting-tabs 55 are folded inwardly and down upon the flanges 45 and 51 and are pasted thereto, in the-position shown in FIGURES l0 and- 5.

For greater rigidity, the return-panel 32 is also preferably pasted to the contiguous or juxtaposed portion of the rear-panel 15this being done simultaneously with the pasting of the flanges 37 and 38 to the inner surface of the bottom-panel 13, described above.

The outer surfaces of the flanges 49 and the contiguous portions of the outer surfaces of the flanges 45, on the one hand, and the like contiguous surfaces of the flanges 51 and 46, on the other hand, may also be pasted to each other for greater securement and rigidity, when the ends are folded up in the manner indicated in FIG- URES 8 and 9. The pasting-tabs 55 may be of a length sufliciently great to extend downwardly to a point slightly beneath the shelf-panels 18 and 19, so that the lower ends of the tabs 55 will also be pasted on to the upper portion of the inner surfaces of the flanges 49.

In this manner a highly form-retaining main body is formed, having a centralized longitudinally-extending well spaced from the front and back panels, in which the belt (or the like) may be nested, so as to expose to view the upper portion thereof, above the shelves 18 and 19.

By then sliding the transparent plastic closure-member onto the main body of the container or box, an effective display-packaging of the merchandise is achieved, for show-case or for counter-display, or for use in the ultimate sale of the merchandise.

In the embodiment shown in FIGURES 11 to 19, both shelf-panels 18 and 19, both well-panels 33 and 34, the rear shelf-anchor-panel 32 and a single bottom wellanchor-panel 58, are formed in continuation of each other, and extend from the upper edge or fold-line 41 of the front panel 14, in the order shown in FIGURE 15- the bottom well-anchor-panel 58 taking the place of the two bottom well-anchor-flanges 37 and 38 of the embodiment shown in FIGURES 1 to 10.

In the embodiment shown in FIGURES 11 to 19, a return panel 59 is folded down along the fold-line 57 at the top of the rear panel 15, and is pasted to the inner surface of said rear panel 15, and extends downwardly to the rear shelf 19.

In this embodiment, two sets of end-panels 60 and 61 are provided, namely, the outer end-panels 60 adjoining the ends of the front panel 14 (and its upward extensions 67) along the fold-lines 50, and the inner end-panels 61 adjoining the ends of the rear panel 15 along the fold-lines 52. In this embodiment, tabs 55 are provided at the upper ends of the inner end-panels 61, along the fold-lines 56, and these tabs are folded inwardly, down upon the inner end-panels and are pasted thereto, to provide the finished inner surface-these tabs 55 extending downwardly to the shelves 18 and 19.

Tabs 62 are provided at the ends of the bottom-panel the front-panel 14 a similar 13, along the fold-lines 63, and are folded upwardly, and may or may not have their outer surfaces pasted to the lower contiguous inner surfaces of the inner end-panels 61.

The inner surfaces of the outer end-panels 60 are, in turn, adhesively secured to the outer surfaces of the inner end-panels 61.

In the embodiment shown in FIGURES 11 to 19,'the upper edge or fold-line 41 of the front-panel 14 terminates (at points 64) a substantial distance short of or in- Wardly of the ends of the front-panel, as indicated in FIG- URE l1, and the front-panel 14 extends upwardly at its ends, along the inclined lines 65 and the upper horizontal lines 66, to the upper horizontal edges of the outer endpanels 60, thereby forming a pair of extensions 67 which rise upwardly to the top of the box. The front shelfpanel 18 and the front well-panel 33 are correspondingly shortened (along the lines 65 and 66).

In this embodiment, the pre-assembly or partial assembly of the box is as follows. The return-panel 59 is folded down upon the inner surface of the rear-panel or backpanel 15 of the box (along the fold-line 57) and is adhesively secured thereto. The rear shelf-anehor-panel 32 is folded inwardly along the fold-line 44, against the rear shelf-panel 19 and the rear well-panel 34. Adhesive is applied to the outer surface of the folded-over rear shelfanchor-panel 32 and to the inner surface of the wellanchor-panel 58. Then the portion of the blank composed of the front shelf-panel 18, the front well-panel 33, the well-bottom-panel (or well-anchor-panel) 58, the rear well-panel 34 and the rear shelf-panel 19 (and the panel 32 turned inwardly, as stated above), is then folded over the rest of the blank, along the fold-line 41, so as to place the outer surface of the rear shelf-anchor-panel 32 against the inner surface of the back-panel 15, with the fold-line 44 adjacent to the lower edge of the down-folded panel 59. In this folded condition of the blank, the wellanchor-panel 58 will be superimposed on the bottom-panel 13, with its edges (or fold-lines) 39 and 40 spaced equidistantly from the edges (or fold-lines) 42 and 43, respectively, of the bottom-panel 13. Hence, the outer surface of the rear shelf-anchor-panel 32 is. afiixed to the inner surface of the back-panel 15 and'the well-anchor-panel 58 is afiixed to the bottom-panel 13, centrally thereof.

In this pre-assembly or partial assembly, the flaps or tabs 55 are also pasted down against the inner surfaces of the inner end-panels 61.

The flattened-out partial assembly, so produced, is shown in FIGURES 16 and 17. i

To complete the box 11, the front and rear panels 14 and 15 are raised upwardly from the bottom 13, by folding them upwardly along the fold-lines 42 and 43. This automatically folds the shelf-panels 18 and 19 into a horizontal position and folds the well-panels 33 and 34 into a vertical position, along their corresponding foldlines.

The tabs 62 are folded upwardly, and the inner endpanels 61 are folded inwardly, and their lower portions may or may not be pasted to the outer surfaces of the tabs 62. The outer end-panels 60 are folded inwardly, against the outer surfaces of the inner end-panels 61, and are pasted thereto.

Instead of the form-retaining plastic cover or closure memberlZ, a thin (non-form-retaining) flexible transparent sheathing may be applied over the box 11 of the embodiment shown in FIGURES 11 to 19, because the upper edges 66 of the front panel extensions 67 will give suflicient support to such sheathing to permit its use (instead of a form-retaining closure member). Such flexible sheathing may be adhesively secured to the front panel and the rear panel. However, a form-retaining closure, such as closure 12, may also be used in connection with the box of the embodiment shown in FIGURES l1 to-19.

- The present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes thereof, and it is therefore desired that the pres- J 6 ent embodiments be considered in all respeots as illustrative and not restrictive, reference being had to the appended claims rather than to the foregoing description to indicate the scope of the invention.

Having described embodiments of my invention, I claim the following:

1. A paper-board container including a bottom-panel, a front-panel, a back-panel, the back-panel being substantially higher than the major portion of the front-panel, a return-panel extending downwardly from the top of the back-panel, a shelf-panel extending inwardly from the top of the major portion of the front-panel, a shelf-panel extending inwardly from said back-panel, a pair of wellpanels extending downwardly from the inner edges of said shelf-panels and having their lower edges secured to said bottom panel, and an end-panel at each end of said container of a height generally the same as the height of the back-panel.

2. A paper-board container including a bottom-panel, a front-panel, a back-panel, the back-panel being substantially higher than the major portion of the front-panel, a return-panel extending downwardly from the top of the back-panel, a shelf-panel extending inwardly from the top of the major portion of the front-panel, a shelf-panel extending inwardly from said back-panel, a pair of wellpanels extending downwardly from the inner edges of said shelf-panels and having their lower edges secured to said bottom panel, and a slidable transparent plastic closure slidably mounted on said container for sliding movement in relation thereto, said closure including a front-panel of the same height as the back-panel of the container and a top-panel of the same width as the width of the bottom panel of said container and having retaining and guiding means associated with the lower edge of the front-panel thereof and with the rear edge of the top-panel thereof for slidably retaining it on said container.

3. The invention according to claim 2 wherein said closure is resilient whereby deflection of one of said panels in relation to the other is sufiicient to free the retaining and guiding means from engagement with the'container body panel, said retaining and guiding means comprising flanges each being of a width less than the bottom-panel and less than the height of said back panel of said container whereby the closure is snapped on or off the container body.

4. A paper-board container including a bottom-panel, a front-panel, a back-panel, the back-panel being substantially higher than the front-panel, a return-panel extending downwardly from the top of the back-panel, a shelfpanel extending inwardly from the top of the front-panel, a shelf-panel extending inwardly from said return-panel, a pair of well-panels extending downwardly from the inner edges of said shelf-panels and having their lower edges secured to said bottom panel, and an end-panel at each end of said container of a height generally the same as the height of the back-panel.

5. A paper-board container including a bottom-panel, a front-panel, a back-panel, the back-panel being substantially higher than the front-panel, a return-panel extend ing downwardly from the top of the back-panel, a shelfpanel extending inwardly from the top of the front-panel, a shelf-panel extending inwardly from said return-panel, a pair of well-panels extending downwardly from the inner edges of said shelf-panels and having their lower edges secured to said bottom panel, and a slidalble transparent plastic closure slidably mounted on said container for sliding movement in relation thereto, said closure including a front-panel of the same height as the back-panel of the container and a top-panel of the same width as the width of the bottom panel of said container and having retaining and guiding means associated with the lower edge of the front-panel thereof and with the rear edge of the top-panel thereof for slidably retaining it on said container.

6. The invention according to claim 5, wherein said closure is resilient whereby deflection of one of said panels in relation to the other is sufiicient {to free the retaining and guiding means from engagement with the container body panel, said retaining and guiding means comprising flanges each being of a width less than the bottom panel and less than the height of said back panel of said container whereby the closure is snapped on or off the container body.

UNITED STATES PATENTS Vance Dec. 9, 1913 Hiering Apr. 17, 1928 Tornczak Aug. 23, 1949 Shnitzler et a1. Feb. 15, 1955 Larson Sept. 17, 1957 

